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Native Gold on Quartz (RARE Brazil locale) Matioli Coll.
- Erico Cardoso, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil
- Small Cabinet, 8.5 x 8.3 x 6.4 cm
- Start Time: 11/05/2015 6:30:00 pm (CST)
- End Time: 11/12/2015 6:30:00 pm (CST)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Gold specimens are very rare from ANY of the 19 Bahia State localities listed by MINDAT. The obsure municipality of Erico Cardoso is not listed and this specimen is perhaps unique. The first Europeans here in the early 18th century came looking for gold. A seam of bright hackly microcrystalline gold is jauntily set along the crest of the massive quartz matrix. The large leaf is 5 mm tall. Ex Matioli Colllection.